Massachusetts High Court Considers When A Party Is On Notice Of Online Misuse

(April 16, 2024, 8:29 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — Requiring a group of models to police even the most obscure portions of the internet for potential misappropriation of their images is “a little bit of a needle in a haystack problem,” the justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said during oral arguments, as they wrestled over a question of whether social media posts are “inherently unknowable” in the context of triggering the statute of limitations of the discovery rule for defamation and publicity rights claims....